Upturn in cuttle-fish and octopus exports

VOV.VN - Cuttle-fish and octopus exports rose 9.8% to US$38.45 million in January, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers said quoting statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Of the figure, cuttle-fish exports earned nearly US$20 million, accounting for nearly 52% while octopus exports reached US$18.45 million, making up 48%.

Thus, exports began increasing after constantly seeing a downturn trend in late last year.

The Republic of Korea was the biggest importer of Vietnam cuttle-fish and octopus with US$15.31 million, up 3.6%.

Meanwhile ASEAN saw a high growth of nearly 21% with an import value of US$5.42 million.

Particularly, exports to the US just held 1.3% or around US$503,000 of the total export value but obtained an impressive growth of 167.3%.

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